Power consumption benchmark?

Soldato
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Bought a cheap £10 meter to measure the current being used. Popular these days to have plug in power meters for all kinds of things.

Plug-in Energy Monitor Power Meter Electricity Electric Usage Monitoring Socket from some auction site.
So...

i5 750 (2.66GHz) @ 4GHz OC
680 stock
16GB RAM
3 HDD
1 SSD
1 x 20cm fan
4 x 12cm fan
1 x 8cm fan
650W Enermax psu

System idles at 130W

Ran Firestrike

Combined test drew the most power at 370W

Anyone else have an idea what they use?
 
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Last I checked my drawn watts was much the same, although I suspect my load Watts might have been a tad lower than 370W.

I have an i7 920 at 3.6Ghz
HD6950
The motherboard is probably responsible for the third highest draw and the fourth will be the power supply inefficiency.
Everything else just adds a few watts each to the load.
 
Idle of 190w, 630w when gaming and 740w max running firestrike. All theese figures include my monitor as its connected to the metre too, 5 plug strip model.
 
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